Posts Tagged ‘tunnel’
Background At home I have a bunch of SSH tunnels from a VM to my various virtual private servers in various places around the world, so I can direct my web traffic through those exit points when needed. I’ve written before about using autossh to do this. But when I’m travelling I don’t have my […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 1 Comment
Tags: keys, OpenWRT, proxy, SOCKS, SSH, sshtunnel, tunnel
AutoSSH in Screen from systemd
I like to have permanent SSH connections from (a VM on) my home network to the various virtual private servers (VPSs) that I have scattered around the globe as these give me SOCKS proxies that I can use to make my web traffic appear from the US or the Netherlands or wherever (as mentioned in […]
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Tags: autossh, screen, SOCKS, SSH, systemd, tunnel, unit, VPS
I wrote a few days ago about my first failed attempt to do this. After some perseverance, and with some lessons learned along the way I’m pleased to say that I now have it working. Given that VXLAN (at least in the Linux kernel implementation) needs multicast I’m still not sure that this is a […]
Filed under: Docker, networking | 3 Comments
Tags: 14.04, bridge, Docker, iproute2, multicast, network, open vswitch, tunnel, Ubuntu, vxlan
This seemed like a good idea, as VXLAN has been in the Linux kernel since 3.7. TL;DR – this doesn’t work as I’d hoped. The two major issues being: VXLAN needs a multicast enabled network, which rules out most public clouds. Instability – I’ve managed to provoke multiple kernel panics on stock Ubuntu 14.04. Background […]
Filed under: Docker, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: bridge, Docker, fail, gre, iproute2, multicast, network, open vswitch, tunnel, Ubuntu, vxlan
Pi Pandora over the Pond
A friend of mine recently returned from working in the US for 3 years, where he’d got to like listening to Internet radio using Pandora. He wanted to get things set up so that he could listen to Pandora on his kitchen stereo. Challenge #1 – be in the US Pandora uses IP geolocation to […]
Filed under: howto, Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
Tags: OpenVPN, Pandora, proxy, Raspberry Pi, RPi, SSH, tunnel
Sadly it’s fairly typical for corporate web filters to block ‘unusual’ ports, which means that if you’re trying to access a service that’s using anything other than port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS then you might be in trouble. I recently came across a situation where somebody was trying to access an […]
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Tags: filter, howto, HTTPS, proxy, stunnel, tunnel, web
In part 1 I went through setting up an SSH tunnel, and waking up machines on the home network. In this part I’ll run through how to use various protocols and clients to connect to machines on the home network. SSH tunnels on PuTTY SSH lets you tunnel many other protocols through it (using a […]
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Tags: howto, http, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RDP, remote access, router, RPi, SOCKS, SSH, tunnel, VNC, vpn, wakeonlan
In this post I’m going to cover setting up a network tunnel and waking up other computers on the home network. Why use a Raspberry Pi? A tunnel needs two ends, so at home this means leaving at least one machine switched on – keeping the electricity meter turning. One of the great things about […]
Filed under: howto, Raspberry Pi, security | 9 Comments
Tags: howto, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote access, router, RPi, SSH, tunnel, vpn, wakeonlan
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
Region locks – My 2¢
Since I started using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy I’ve found that I’m exploiting it pretty regularly. Every time that I see one of those ‘you can’t access that content from your country’ type messages I have a choice. I can give up and move on, or I can fork out 2¢ to spin up […]
Filed under: could_do_better, media, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, lock, micro payments, micropayments, payments, proxy, region, region lock, SSH, tunnel, video
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